4 movie day for me!

If a movie has been lost for more than a century and then is found, it should be eligilble for the Oscars this year.

Remember to boycott SCREAM 7 🇵🇸

This news is a bummer on a massive scale. To distract yourself, would you like to help me list some movies that: look at transformation (into an animal specifically) through a folk horror lens or folkloric depictions of the monstrous feminine I've got some, but I'm really blanking here.

I fear that a critical mass of our so-called allies prefer mourning us to fighting for us.

Remember to boycott SCREAM 7 🇵🇸

Re-upping for the afternoon crowd. Some info on a new project I’m working on. The plan is to put it on my Patreon, but if someone wanted to give it another home, I’d be open to that too. It’s going to be good, that much I know. It would make a good book or regular column, I think.

for the afternoon crowd

I can’t stop thinking about NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE

This is a fantastic take on “WH” and how the dumbest criticisms of it have really wrapped around the neck of the discourse about the movie.

Cold take: Hades is a good video game

THE POWER FANTASY #16.

Just got an email letting me know I’ll be laid off on Friday—my second time in 15 months. So here’s my regular reminder that I’m available for freelance video-game consulting, mock reviews, public relations, comms writing, feature writing, and so on.

i wrote about wuthering heights, the classic-lit-turned-teen-movie pipeline, and why it's cool to judge a film for what it *actually* is and what it's *actually* trying to be... and not what it's not!

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I'm an inch taller than these guys, and can confirm. I have tasted so many tree branches. And banged my head on the overhead bar on subway trains. Also a ceiling fan once. I have also taken many showers where I had to stoop or the water would be at chest level.

evergreen

no one has ever yearned like these two

When you feel at your lowest, remember

This movie is actually playing in Philly. Which is good! But it’s only playing once per day, in the middle of the afternoon. For its entire run. Which is bad. No way to see it! Wuthering heights is on like 3 screens, I’m sure we could squeeze one evening showing for it

In honor of Pokemon's 30th anniversary, what are your top five favorite Pokemon? -Farfetch'd -Rowlet -Lickitung -Mareep -Aerodactyl

I would pay an obscene amount for this to be released in 4K

Real

The Matrix Resurrections was never going to pop off bc the entire thing is deconstructing the legacy of what it means for queer and trans pepople vs what it means for everyone else, but it deserved a better chance than it got. It was doomed bc it came out the same day as the Omicron strain of Covid!

South Philadelphia in snow

took a BLIZZARD WALK out on the parkway, saw some things

Who do you think is the real person played by the most number of people across film, stage, and TV? It’s got to be Winston Churchill or Jesus, right?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

*turns volume to maximum* *plays “Last Note of Freedom”*

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

Movies like BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS are the reason I check my theater listings every week. So glad I got to see this new wuxia film on the big screen boxd.it/dfkxTn

$500 billion a year is enough to guarantee a basic income via a negative income tax with a 50% phaseout rate for all Americans, ending poverty and significantly reducing inequality and insecurity.

They think punk means *acting without consent* not *acting in defiance of power*

00s body image/weight culture returning like Saturn is really fucking unnerving.

My interview with Nia DaCosta in the latest issue of @fangoria.bsky.social - so grateful I had a chance to talk with her about this incredibly special film in a series that means so much to me. @philnobilejr.bsky.social always sees me right!! 🫡🫡

Movies I watched in a Catholic high school: -Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet -Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet -Clueless -Roman Polanski’s Macbeth -Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate -Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

Happy Friday, Acolytes ✨ Share what you're reading for #OshamirFicFriday ❤️‍🔥

If you love something, don't let capitalism get its dirty fucking fingers gripped too tight on it seems to be the only lesson I've ever learned. Support the small and the feral and those too interested in the art than to know any better than to have made better choices.

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

SULLY or DON’T LOOK UP

The one woman signing/packing/shipping machine is officially back up and running! My sincerest thanks to everyone who has placed an order! (If you haven't and you want in on the action, there's a handful of these and a few other prints still available in ye olde shoppe!)

Thanks to Tim Curry in MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND after being in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with Patricia Quinn, the Muppets are only two degrees away from I, CLAUDIUS. Or shorter if you count this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvI...

Bob Iger hamstrung the sequel trilogy at every turn and then killed the best chance at redeeming the flat finale because he lacks the imagination required for the job. Good riddance.

This is probably why I’ll never be able to work as a writer professionally. I love making things, but I don’t have the energy to create *and* market that creation, make promotional content, manage my own business needs, interact with an audience, etc.

silver lining to the internet being busted is that I am turning to books even more than I was before, libraries rule, as does my city’s assortment of weird used bookstores

What are your Top 3 favorite Zelda games? My favorite game series ever, so this is a tough choice: -Link’s Awakening -Ocarina of Time -Majora’s Mask

You owe it to yourself to read the 2001 obituary (republished today) for Rose Freedman, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. An incredible woman. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

Super proud of this one. Give it a read and a share if you feel so inclined 💜